Performance Evaluation of Secured Reactive Routing Protocols in MANETs

"A Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is mobile, multi-hop, infrastructure less wireless network which is capable of autonomous operation. Security is one of the biggest issue in MANETs as they are infrastructure-less and autonomous. Therefore, in MANET networks with security needs, there must be two considerations kept in mind: one to make the routing protocol secure and second one to protect the data transmission. Our endeavour in this paper would focus on achieving the routing and secure information exchange with the help of public key cryptography. This will facilitate the user nodes to perform routing, mutual authentications, generation and secure exchange of public and private keys. As a result of which ensuring confidentiality, integrity and authentication of data exchange in a more suitable and secured way. "